Guardian Weekly

The Guardian Weekly magazine is a round-up of the world news, opinion and long reads that have shaped the week. Inside, the past seven days' most memorable stories are reframed with striking photography and insightful companion pieces, all handpicked from The Guardian and The Observer.

Eyewitness • São Tomé and Príncipe

Global report • Headlines from the last seven days

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SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT

‘Putin is afraid’ The drone strike force taking the fight to Russia • At a launch site in rural Ukraine, members of the elite ‘Magyar’s Birds’ brigade are turning Russia’s vast size into a weakness

Home truths • Reshuffle exposes cracks in Zelenskyy’s wartime team

Friends reunited • Why relations between Trump and Zelenskyy are warming

Crossing chaos turns to limbo for Moroccans in Ceuta

Border breach • How Ceuta became a flashpoint for migration

A crisis within • Is internal dissent more damaging than war?

Stories of survival and loss emerge after deadly earthquake

Common goals • The 2026 Commonwealth Games drew to a close in Glasgow last weekend after 11 action-packed days. Around 3,000 athletes and para-athletes from 74 countries and territories battled it out for medals in sports from bowls to swimming. The next Games, in India in 2030, will mark the event’s centenary.

Will a flying start lead to sustained success for Burnham?

Pot nurdles • Thousands mobilise to pick up plastic

The week the French battled a ‘megaf ire’ • Exhausted firefighters, foresters and volunteers wage ‘war of attrition’ against blaze that forced 200,000 people from their homes

Extreme rainfall across Asia brings floods and typhoons • From Afghanistan to Taiwan, unprecedented deluge from weather conditions highlights the devastating impact of climate breakdown

Dry run • The farmers bracing for a super El Niño

Deep breath • The asthma clinic that’s buried down a salt mine

Artists find calm and inspiration in former capital city

Spies in the sky • The news that the a humble lamp-post could be used as surveillance tool for the good of society seems like progress – but who will shine a light on where all of this data goes?

How Fifa’s plan to sell off the World Cup backfired

Section 338 • Trump may have found the killer weapon for trade wars

THE VIEW FROM CLACTON • Nigel Farage’s Essex seaside constituency takes in genteel resorts and one of England’s poorest villages. With a byelection later this month, what do its residents think about the Reform UK leader, his novelty challenger Count Binface – and the country in general?

I IRAN USA Q IRAQ’S IMPOSSIBLE PREDICAMENT • With the outbreak of this year’s war between Iran and the US, Baghdad’s balancing act between the two antagonists has collapsed, exposing a perilously fragile state

Simon Tisdall • Trump has blundered into a new ‘forever war’ that he cannot win

Emma Brockes • I’m torn over hard hats, but still want my kids to go to uni. Is that wrong?

Jane Martinson • In the battle of Elon Musk v the press, truth must not be the loser

The GuardianView • Trump won’t like it – but states must seize the $500bn prize of global corporate tax

Letters

BECKY BARNICOAT ON MILLENNIAL LIFE

Hit and myth • Australian director Benedict Andrews’ new London play fuses Sophocles and Ingmar Bergman. What can it tell us about how we live today?

When pop’s young guns went to China • In 1985 Wham! were the first western group to tour the People’s Republic. Andrew Ridgeley recalls the trip and the original documentary

‘Ethio-jazz is a beautiful science’ • Mulatu Astatke spent...